Distributing mechanism for typographical composing-machines.



' J. MAYER. DISTRIBUTING MECHANISM FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL GOMPOSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED 1330.31, 1910.

Patented Mar. 28, 1911.

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DISTRIBUTING MECHANISM FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL GOMPOSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED 13110.31, 1910.

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JACQUES MAYER, OF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR T0 MERGENTI-IALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DISTRIBUTING MECHANISM FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL OOMPOSING-MAGI-IINES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACQUES MAYER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Kurfurstendamm 181, Berlin, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Distributing Mechanism for Typographical Composing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists principally of improvements in means for restoring to a common level, matrices or type dies having more than one face of the respective character, such for example, as those described in the specification of Letters Patent No. 547,633, before they are delivered to the distributer of a typographical composing machine. In any composed line in which both faces are presented in the operative position, the matrices presenting, say, Roman faces, are higher than those presenting, say italic faces but both must be restored to the same level before they can be delivered to the distribus ter. The operative position just mentioned, is, in a machine equipped with matrices, that adapted to register with the mold; and in a machine equipped with type dies, that adapted to make the impression at the desired level. Throughout the specification, the term matrices is to be read as including type dies. After they are so restored, the distribution commences by the separation of the matrices and the spacers from each other, and is followed by the transference of them to their respective magazines.

The invention includes improvements in the means for effecting this separation.

The accompanying figures show the invention as applied to substantially the same machine as that chosen for the illustration of the invention of the patent above mentioned, viz., a line casting machine known commercially under the trade mark Linotype Referring to them, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the first elevator of that machine, looking at the latter from the lefthand side of it; Fig. 2, a sectional rear elevation through the first elevator, and intermediate channel in which the higher matrices are restored to the level of the lower ones, and the first organ of the distributer. Fig. 3, a sectional elevation through the said intermediate channel and the first organ of the distributer, showing that the said channel allows the higher matrices to drop to the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 31, 1910.

Patented Mar. 28, 1911. Serial No. 600,286.

level of the lower ones; Fig. 4, a similar section showing all the matrices at the common level; Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are sections respectively similar to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, showing the new device for separating the spacers from the matrices; Figs. 8 to 11 are sections respectively similar to Figs. 1 to 4, showing a modification of the first organ of the distributer; Fig. 12, a side elevation of a second modification thereof; and Figs. 13 and 14 are, respectively, side and rear elevations showing a new device on the said first organ, for pressing the higher matrices down to the level of the lower ones.

In Figs. 1 to 4,1 is the first elevator which moves the composed line of matrices and spacers from the above described operative position, toward the distributer; 2, the higher matrices having their bottom faces 3 supported in the said position by the engagement of their front bottom lugs 4 upon a ledge 5; 6, the lower matrices having their top faces 7 supported in the said position by the engagement of their top lugs 8 upon ledges 9; 10, the said intermediate channel, not shorter than the longest composed line which it may have to receive; and 11, a ledge on each side of it on which the matrices 2 and 6 will rest by their bottom lugs when they are at the common level.

12 is the first organ of the distributer. Its function is to receive the composed line of matrices and spacers or the matrices only, according to the point in the cycle of the machine, at which the before mentioned separation is effected. In either case, it is characterized by a capacity for receiving the matrices 2 and 6 at their respective levels and allowing the former ones to drop in it to the common level. For this purpose it has two depending parallel plates 14 not shorter than the longest line with which it may have to deal, wide enough apart to allow the top lugs of the matrices 2 and 6 to pass between them, each plate 14 having a ledge 15 projecting toward its fellow ledge, both ledges being at the proper level for the said top lugs to engage on when the organ 12 is in the channel 10.

13 indicates the well-known arm or lever which reciprocates the organ 12 between the channel 10 and the distributor.

Referring to Figs. 5 to 7, 16 is a Mergenthaler double wedge spacer supported, in Figs. 5 and 6, in the first elevator 1 by the engagement of its lugs 17 in grooves 18 therein. 19 is a deflector carried by each side of the channel 10 in the path of the respective lugs 17.

The invention acts as follows: \Vhile the organ 12 is holding its ledges 15 at the proper level within the channel 10, the matrices 2 and 6, at their respective heights, together with the accompanying spacers 16, are .moved out of the elevator 1 into the channel 10 as heretofore. As the higher matrices 2 enter the said channel and pass through it, they drop on to the ledges 11, while the lower matrices 6, have only to move off the ledges 9 on to the ledges 11, but both higher and lower matrices engage by their top lugs in the organ 12 between the plates let and above the ledges 15. In this way all the matrices of the line to be distributed, are brought to a common level and engaged with the first organ 12 of the distributer. The organ 12 with the matrices, is then moved by the arm 13 toward the ma triX distributer as heretofore.

In the machine described in the specification of Letters Patent No. 136,532, the separation of the matrices and space bars takes place at the moment the organ 12 begins to move from the channel 10 upward toward the matrix distributor, the matrices being carried away by that organ, and the spacers being left behind to be afterward raked into their own magazine. The improvement in this respect is shown in Figs. 5 to 7, in which 16 is a spacer; 17, 17, its lugs; 18, 18, the grooves in the first elevator 1, in which the said lugs engage, as heretofore; and 19, a deflector on each side of the channel 10 in the path of the respective lugs 17, 17. As the composed line is moved out of the elevator 1 into the channel 10, the lugs 17 of the spacers engage with the deflectors 19, whereby the spacers are pushed downward through the line, until they drop on to the ledges 20, whence they are raked into their own magazine.

In the machine described in the specification of Letters Patent No. 878,798, the separation before mentioned, does not take place until the composed line of matrices and spacers has reached the matrix distributer. The construction illustrated in Figs. 1 to 1, contemplates such a separation, and, therefore, that the spacers 16 are supported in the organ 12 by the engagement of their lugs 17 in two grooves (not shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 41, but similar to the grooves 18 in Fig. 5) in the said organ, which grooves are so positioned therein as to aline with the grooves 18 already described, when the organ 1 1 is in the position shown in Figs. 2, 8 and 4. The spacers 16 are carried up by the respective elevator and separated from the matrices by the separating means described in that patent.

According to the modification illustrated in Figs. 8 to 11, the two plates 14: are re-- placed by two plates 21 pivoted respectively at 22 to the organ 12 and having prolongations 23 on the opposite side of the pivot line, which prolongations are pushed away from each other by two springs 24, one on each side of the pivot 25 which connects the organ 12 to the arm 13, so as to move the ledges 15 near enough to each other to engage the line of matrices under their top lugs. The opposite'faces of these ledges are rounded off as shown at 26. lVith this modification, the matrices are moved into the channel 10 before the ledges 15 enter it. As these ledges enter the said channel, the rounded off faces 26, come into contact with the top lugs of the matrices and are forced apart against the resilience of the springs 24:. As soon as the ledges 15 pass the said lugs, they are engaged under them by the expansion of the springs 24.

According to the modification illustrated in Fig. 12, the matrices may enter the channel 10 either before or after the organ 12 en= gages with it. The before described plates 14L and 21 are replaced by a pair of plates 27 independently pivoted on the pivot 25 and urged apart by a spring 28. There is a V- shaped notch 29 near the top of each side of the usual V-shaped notch 80 ofeach matrix, producing an overhanging shoulder 31. 32 is a ridge on the outer side of each plate 27, shaped so as to be forced inward against the spring 28, by their engagement with the shoulders 81. After they have passed these shoulders they are engaged in the notches 29 by the said springs.

Referring to Figs. 13 and 14, 33 is a bar on the underside of the organ 12, adapted, by being wide enough to engage the tops of both lugs of all the matrices, and deep enough to be separated from the ledges 11 by but little more than the height of a ma trix when the said organ is in the channel 10, to depress upon the said ledges, any higher matrix that may not have dropped on to them, before the ledges 15 had entered the channel 10.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s 1. In a typographical composing machine, the combination of a channel, means in such channel adapted to receive matrices standing at different heights and to allow the higher ones to drop to the level of the lower ones, a first organ of the distributer, and means on the said organ adapted to receive all the matrices before any dropping.

2. In atypographical composing machine, the combination of a channel, means in such channel adapted to receive matrices standing at different heights and to allow the higher ones to drop to the level of the lower ones, a first organ of the distributer, and means on the said organ adapted to engage all the matrices before any dropping.

3. In atypographical composing machine, the combination of a channel, means in such channel adapted to receive matrices standing at diflerent heights and to allow the higher ones to drop to the level of the lower ones, a first organ of the distributer, and means on the said organ adapted to receive all the matrices after any dropping.

4t. Ina typographical composing machine, the combination of a channel, means in such channel adapted to receive matrices standing at different heights and to allow the higher ones to drop to the level of the lower ones, a first organ of the distributer, and means on the said organ adapted to engage all the matrices after any dropping.

5. In a typographical composing machine, the first organ of the distributer having means adapting it to receive matrices standing at different heights and to allow the higher ones to drop to the level of the lower ones.

6. In a typographical composing machine,

the first organ of the distributer havingmeans adapting it to engage matrices standing at different heights and to allow the higher ones to drop to the level of the lower ones.

7. In a typographical composing machine, the combination of a channel, means in such channel adapted to receive matrices standing at diiferent heights and to allow the higher ones to drop to the level of the lower ones, a first organ of the distributer, means on the said organ adapted to receive all the matrices before any dropping, and deflectors in the channel, adapted to force the spacers downward below the first organ of the distributer.

8. In a typographical composing machine, the combination of a channel, means in such channel adapted to receive matrices standing at different heights and to allow the higher ones to drop to the level of the lower ones, a first organ of the distributer, means on the said organ adapted to engage all the matrices before any dropping, and deflectors in the channel, adapted to force the spacers downward below the first organ of the distributer.

9. In a typographical composing machine, the combination of a channel, means in such channel adapted to receives matrices stand ing at different heights and to allow the higher ones to drop to the level of the lower ones, a first organ of the distributer, means on the said organ adapted to receive all the matrices after any dropping, and deflectors in the channel, adapted to force the spacers downward below the first organ of the distributer.

10. In a typographical composing machine, the combination of a channel, means in such channel adapted to receive matrices standing at different heights and to allow the higher ones to drop to the level of the lower ones, a first organ of the distributer, means on the said organ adapted to engage all the matrices after any dropping, and deflectors in the channel, adapted to force the spacers downward below the first organ of the distributer.

11. In a typographical composing machine, the second elevator having two plates pivoted thereto, the said plates being provided with ledges to engage the matrices, and resilient means acting to hold them normally in their engaging positions.

12. In a typographical composing machine, the second elevator provided with means to receive the matrices at difierent levels and then to permit them to assume the same level.

13. In a typographical composing machine, the combination of a first elevator having means to support matrices at different levels, and a second elevator provided with means to receive the matrices at different levels and then to permit them to as sume the same level.

14. In a typographical composing ma chine, the second elevator provided with means to receive matrices at different levels.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

JACQUES MAYER.

Witnesses:

RUDoLr WINKLER, PAUL HorrMANN.

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